Agassiz, Geneva

Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection

Agassiz, Geneva

A gold hunting cased cylinder watch with polychrome enamel painted scenes of new york city hall

Circa 1850, no. 40270

• Movement: frosted gilded, cylinder escapement, plain three-arm balance

• Dial: white enamel dial, Roman numerals, outer minute ring, subsidiary seconds

• Case: gold, the covers with polychrome enamel painted scenes of New York City Hall with park in the foreground, the scenes within gold asymmetrical borders surrounded by pale blue opaque enamel heightened with scrolling flowers and foliage, milled band, gilt-metal cuvette with apertures for winding and hand-setting, signed At. Agassiz, Geneva, case numbered 40270

diameter 39mm